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| Name | WIOD |
|---|---|
| City | Miami, Florida |
| Format | News/Talk radio |
| Area | South Florida(targets Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) |
| Branding | News Radio 610 WIOD |
| Slogan | "South Florida's News, Traffic and Weather Station" |
| Airdate | January 19, 1926 |
| Frequency | 610 kHz (analog) |
| Power | 5,000 wattsCurrently operating at 10,000 watts under a special temporary authority |
| Class | B |
| Facility id | 14242 |
| Affiliations | The Weather ChannelFox News RadioWall Street Journal RadioWFOR |
| Callsign meaning | Wonderful Isle of Dreams |
| Sister stations | WBGG, WHYI, WINZ, WMGE, WMIA, WMIB |
| Owner | Clear Channel Communications |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | http://www.610wiod.com |
Installed in the spring of 1925 by Carl Graham Fisher, a Miami Beach developer, the station made its formal air debut on the South Florida airwaves on January 19, 1926. Carl Fisher selected the letters WIOD as the call letters signifying “Wonderful Isles of Dreams” to commemorate Collins Island, on which the station was situated. WIOD is Florida’s seventh oldest continuously licensed broadcast radio station.
From 1959 to 1962 the call letters were changed to WCKR - Cox-Knight Broadcasting had once owned the station as well as WCKT television, now WSVN. Branded Wacker Radio, they attempted a rock & roll format but were unsuccessful against strong competition.
"NewsRadio 610 WIOD" arguably features one of the largest radio news departments in the Southeast United States and has consistently been the most frequent winner in annual Florida Associated Press statewide competitions. 610 WIOD may be best known for its continuous hurricane coverage, particularly Andrew, Katrina and Wilma. Despite the station's class B status, it has strong daytime and nighttime signal. This is due to parts of the tower's guy ground system resting in the brackish mix of fresh and salt waters of Biscayne Bay.
WIOD, positioned as "South Florida's News, Traffic and Weather Station" is owned and operated by Clear Channel Communications, Inc., the largest U.S. radio owner. WIOD is an affiliate of the Fox News Radio network. It also is affiliated with The Weather Channel, Dow Jones & Company (for "The Wall Street Journal Business Report") and has a news and weather content sharing relationship with WFOR-TV ("CBS 4", former partner was WPLG "Local 10"). 610 WIOD was the radio flagship of the 2006 NBA champions Miami Heat from 1996-2008. It is also the "official" broadcast emergency station for the Broward County Commission.
The rest of the weekday line-up includes syndicated talk programming such as Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Todd Schnitt's The Schnitt Show, which are aired mid-days and afternoons live. The Schnitt Show originated on WIOD in 2001 before being syndicated back to Tampa and further. Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and George Noory's "Coast To Coast AM" program fill out evenings and overnights.
Up until this past June 2009, weekend programming included mostly syndicated programs. Since then, the station has replaced most of those hosts with infomercials or brokered programming. Michael Woulfe is WIOD's afternoon news guy
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| Name | Neil Rogers |
|---|---|
| Alias | Uncle Neil, Neil God |
| Birthname | Nelson Roger Behelfer |
| Birth date | November 06, 1942 |
| Birth place | Rochester, New York |
| Death date | December 24, 2010 |
| Death place | Broward County, Florida |
| Show | The Neil Rogers Show |
| Station | 560 WQAM, Miami |
| Timeslot | Monday-Friday |
| Style | Talk show host |
| Country | United States |
| Web | NeilRogers.com |
Neil Rogers (November 5, 1942 December 24, 2010) was an American talk radio personality. Until his retirement on June 22, 2009, "The Neil Rogers Show" aired weekdays from 10am-2pm on 560 WQAM. It was consistently the top rated show in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale media market and had been since his Miami debut in 1976. Although he was not syndicated nationally or even regionally, Talkers magazine, the trade publication of talk radio, ranked Rogers at Number 15 on its 2006 list of the 100 most important personalities in the business. Rogers died at the age of 68 at the Vitas Hospice at Florida Medical Center in Broward County, Florida.
Over the next decade, Rogers worked at several stations in several states, including New York, Michigan, and Florida, where he ended up at WJNO AM in West Palm Beach. Rogers subsequently lost his job in West Palm Beach and was headed to Yuma, Arizona when he called his mother from the road and learned that Miami-Ft. Lauderdale's WKAT (AM 1360) had offered him a job without application or audition. Rogers turned his car around and headed for Miami, debuting on WKAT on March 1, 1976. By the end of 1976, he was one of the top-rated radio personalities in the market.
Nine months later, when singer Anita Bryant began a crusade to repeal Dade County's ordinance banning discrimination against homosexuals, Rogers responded by announcing on the air that he was homosexual. Although Bryant's campaign to repeal the ordinance was successful, Rogers' admission did nothing to hurt his radio career; indeed, his ratings steadily increased with every Arbitron period.
When his contract with WKAT expired in 1979, Rogers remained in Miami but moved down the AM dial to 790, WNWS. By that time Rogers was unrivaled as the highest-rated talk-show host in Miami, dominating both the 18-24 and 25-54 demographics (the most coveted age ranges in the business). His style — unabashed liberal, steadfast conspiracy theorist, scatological, and funny but acutely mean when dealing with callers (especially elderly callers), a schtick that may best be described as caustically comic — was firmly established, making Rogers something of an icon in the market.
Rogers moved again in 1982, to Miami's WINZ. When he moved to mid-days on WINZ, his "Hallandale Vice" routine set the market and WINZ on fire. After years of agitating for an earlier time slot, WINZ's owner, Guy Gannett Publishing, moved him to mornings on co-owned WZTA (Zeta-4) in 1988. Although ratings in the morning were immediate, Roger's long simmering battle with station management boiled over, culminating with him moving to WIOD in the fall of 1989. From WIOD he was briefly simulcast in the Tampa Bay market on WSUN. His last relocation was to 560 WQAM in 1997. Regardless of his station, he was consistently the top rated personality in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale market, prompting one Miami radio executive to call him "the most consistent performer among men 25-54 that this market has ever seen." He also has a devoted audience in Europe and around the world who listen via the Internet.
He has been targeted from time to time by local activists who find him offensive; one, Jack Thompson, a former Miami attorney, unsuccessfully sued Rogers and his employers to remove him from the air. In 1989, the Hallandale City Commission voted to censure Neil Rogers for "offensive comments" that he had made about the elderly. Rogers had survived all such attacks, and indeed, many of them have increased his popularity.
It was announced on April 14, 2008 that Rogers agreed to a new 5-year contract on WQAM, which would have kept "Uncle Neil", as he was called by his fans, firmly on the air until 2013.
On the May 13, 2009 show it was announced but not confirmed that Rogers' longtime show producer and fill in host Jorge Rodriguez was being fired by WQAM in a cost-cutting measure. Rogers' contract includes the ability for him to choose his producer and no resolution was found by the end of the program even after Rogers called his agent on the air. Rodriguez's future with the show has been the topic of interest in the South Florida media including the Sun-Sentinel newspaper. Rodriguez's firing was confirmed by Rogers at the start of the May 14, 2009 program.
Rodriguez' firing drew great response from Neil's fans. Rodriguez later began his own show on SoFloRadio.com
Rodriguez was replaced by WQAM Deputy Program Director Lee "Flee" Feldman. Feldman stated that he is working on the Neil Rogers show without any increase in his salary.
It was announced on June 22, 2009 that Rogers and Beasley Broadcast Miami reached an agreement where Neil Rogers will no longer be featured on air at WQAM, but would consult for the station under a new agreement. Neil Rogers had retired from on-air radio.
Rogers, at age 68, had been suffering from several health ailments in the last months of his life. His friend and attorney Norman Kent says the radio host suffered a stroke and heart attack in October and his condition had been declining since Thanksgiving. He died on December 24, 2010 at the age of 68.
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| Name | Phil Hendrie |
|---|---|
| Caption | Phil Hendrie |
| Birth date | September 01, 1952 |
| Birth place | Pasadena, California |
Hendrie has performed voices on the animated FOX sitcoms King of the Hill and Futurama, and as I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. and the Terrorist in . In Spring of 2006, he had a supporting role in the live-action NBC sitcom Teachers.
Hendrie moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Miami, Florida where he further developed his show. The show then moved to KFI in Los Angeles, California and was nationally syndicated to approximately 100 radio stations. Hendrie was married in 1997 to radio talk show host Maria Sanchez. Their wedding was held at the Queen Mary and was broadcast live on KFI. In February 2005, Hendrie was moved from his flagship station, KFI, to XTRA Sports 570 AM, a sports talk radio station also based in Los Angeles.
In early 2006, Hendrie announced that he was retiring from radio; yet the retirement proved to be temporary. He said that he felt he had reached the limits of what he could do in “terrestrial talk radio” and expressing a desire to shift his career focus toward acting. On June 4, 2007, it was announced that Phil Hendrie would return to radio June 25, 2007 from 10 PM to 1 AM PST on Talk Radio Network, with shows airing weeknightly. The new incarnation of Hendrie’s program is a combination of character voices from his old show and lighthearted political commentary.
On November 20, 2010, Hendrie returned to KFI for the Saturday 7 PM to 10 PM block.
Phil Hendrie Show has also taken to Twitter, a social networking site, offering behind-the-scenes details of every show with posts by Phil's executive producer Jason Rantz and occasional posts by show character Bud Dickman. Phil posts under the moniker "PH".
Hendrie is the voice of I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. on South Park creators' Trey Parker and Matt Stone's feature film Team America.
Hendrie played a starring role in NBC’s short-lived midseason replacement sitcom, Teachers, in the spring of 2006. He has also completed pilots for Three Strikes and Giants of Talk Radio.
Hendrie has also completed a role as the NY Nets coach in the Will Ferrell film, Semi-Pro.
Hendrie also guest starred in two episodes of The Unit that originally aired October 10 and October 31, 2006. He played the part of a radio talk show host on a military base.
Hendrie has also guest starred in several episodes of Matt Groening’s cartoon show Futurama, voicing different members of a hippie family known as the Waterfalls, all of whom have been killed trying to defend what they protested for. He has also frequently done voice work on King of the Hill.
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He has been the Sports Director at WPLG television in Miami since 1993, hosting the station's Sports Jam Live program. His on-air time at the station decreased when he assumed his radio play-by-play duties, and in April 2007, he announced he would leave WPLG entirely at the end of his contract. Cefalo has stated he will also concentrate on his wine business.
He has been a correspondent for NBC News on The Today Show, sports anchor for NBC News at Sunrise and co-host of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Cefalo also co-hosted PM Magazine, AM South Florida, and hosted the syndicated game shows Trump Card, and Sports Snapshot (according to The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows Volume 2). He is the only alumnus of Penn State to ever host a game show.
In 1988, Cefalo won an Emmy for his writing on the 24th Olympic Games. The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association named him Florida Sportscaster of the Year five times (1998, 2001-2004).
He now hosts a morning news program on NewsRadio 610-WIOD.
In 1984, Cefalo caught the Dan Marino pass that broke the record for most touchdown passes in a season.
He played in one of the most famous games in NFL history: the AFC divisional playoff game between the San Diego Chargers and Miami Dolphins on January 2, 1982 at the Orange Bowl. The Pro Football Hall of Fame named it the "NFL's Game of the '80s."
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism in 1978.
Cefalo is a well-known oenophile, with over 1,200 bottles in his personal wine cellar. His family has been in the wine business for several generations, and this love of wine has led to two Miami-area emporiums: Cefalo's Wine Cellar and Cefalo's Wine Corner. He also founded Cefalo's Cave Club, a $300-a-month private club with personal wine lockers, tastings, classes and meals.
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| Name | Wisin & Yandel |
|---|---|
| Background | group_or_band |
| Born | December 19, 1978 (Wisin)January 14, 1977 (Yandel) |
| Origin | Cayey, Puerto Rico |
| Genre | Reggaeton, R&B;, Electropop, Latin pop |
| Years active | 1998 – presente |
| Label | WY, Machete |
| Url | WisinYandelPR.com |
| Current members | Juan Luis Morera Luna (Wisin)Llandel Veguilla Malavé Salazar (Yandel) |
Wisin & Yandel are a Puerto Rican reggaeton duo, consisting of Llandel Veguilla Malavé Salazar (Yandel) and Juan Luis Morera Luna (Wisin). They started their career in 2000 and have been together since, winning several awards during that time.
Their biggest hits are "Rakata", "Llamé Pa' Verte (Bailando Sexy)", "Pam Pam", "Sexy Movimiento", "Pegao", "Síguelo", "Abusadora", and "Gracias a Tí". Wisin & Yandel have collaborated with internationally known artists such as R. Kelly on "Burn It Up", Paris Hilton on the reggaeton remix to her debut single "Stars Are Blind", Ja Rule on "Rakata (Remix)", Lenny Kravitz on "Breathe" (a promotional song for Absolut Vodka), Mexican Pop group RBD on "Lento (Remix)", compatriots La Secta AllStar on "Llora Mi Corazón", Fat Joe on "Jangueo", Nelly Furtado on "Sexy Movimiento (Remix)", 50 Cent on "Mujeres In The Club" and "Así Soy" along with G-Unit, Akon on "All Up 2 You" along with Aventura and "Ella Me Llama (Remix)", Enrique Iglésias on "Lloro Por Ti (Remix)" and "Gracias a Tí (Remix)", Gloria Estefan on "No Llores (Remix)", T-Pain on "Imagínate", "Te Siento" and in a remix for Reverse Cowgirl.
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| Name | David Bisbal Ferre |
|---|---|
| Landscape | no |
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | David Bisbal Ferre |
| Born | June 05, 1979 in Almería, España |
| Origin | Almería, Spain |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Genre | Latin pop, pop |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Label | Signature Records, Wrasse Records (UK) |
| Url | http://www.davidbisbal.com/ |
David Bisbal Ferré (born in Almería, Spain on June 5, 1979) is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish pop singer. He gained his initial fame as a runner up on the interactive reality television show Operación Triunfo produced by TJ Hall.
He has since released four studio albums, all of which topped the Spanish Albums Chart, in addition to recording a number of live albums. He's toured throughout Europe and Latin America and is now considered to be a crossover international artist.
In October 2001 he auditioned for the first ever edition of Operación Triunfo (Spanish equivalent of Star Academy) where he was accepted and was one of the 16 finalists. The grand prize was the chance of representing Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest. He came second in the final losing to Rosa López. She went on to sing Europe's Living a Celebration for Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 (ESC) competition.
In February 2004, he released his second album entitled "Bulería" again produced by his friend Kike Santander. It found similar success in Spain and throughout Latin America turning diamond with more than 1 million albums sold in Spain alone, becoming the best Spanish seller of 2004.
In March 2005, he also released a DVD "Todo Por Ustedes" that contained live registrations of some of his concerts in the United States, Latin America and Spain.
"Premonición" became the third studio album by David Bisbal released on 3 October 2006. end of the week, it had achieved enough sales to be certified as 5 times platinum with sales over 400,000 copies in Spain alone. On October 20, 2009, Bisbal will release "Sin Mirar Atrás", which has been received with positive reviews. On the track Aqui Ahora, which is features on the album Premonicion, David worked with writer/producer DJ Sammy. In 2010 David was featured in the Spanish Version of the FIFA 2010 Official World Cup song Waving Flag with Somali-Canadian Musician K'naan who is the original artist of the song.
On September 3, 2003, he won the Latin Grammies held in Miami from the category "Best New Artist". During the event, He sang Angels, in a bilingual English / Spanish duet with Jessica Simpson. He also launched a big promotional tour in Latin America with sold-out concerts Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and others.
In 2008, he recorded Hate That I Love You (Odio Amarte). He achieved European success in Germany, Belgium and Romania in addition to great success in Japan.
In 2009, he recorded Sufriras a Spanish / English duet with singer Pixie Lott, eventually released as a bonus track on the Deluxe Edition of his fourth studio album, Sin Mirar Atrás.
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During the 1990s, Greene spent time covering Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls basketball team, forming an unlikely friendship that Greene documented in two best-selling books. The movie Funny About Love (1990) was based on a Greene column. In 1993, his novel All Summer Long was published by Doubleday, and his columns are collected in several books.
Though Greene was popular with readers, critics accused him of excessive sentimentality, heavy writing and repetitive coverage of the same subject, most notably the Baby Richard child custody saga. A therapist for the birth parents in the custody case, Karen Moriarty, claimed in the book Baby Richard: A Four-Year-Old Child Comes Home that Greene never spoke to the parents, although he covered the subject with a hundred columns in which he strongly took the side of the adoptive parents. Greene claimed that the biological parents, the Kirchners, did not respond to his requests for interviews. The Chicago Reader ran a derisive column, "BobWatch: We Read Him So You Don't Have To," penned pseudonymously by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg. Greene's experiences as a roadie were parodied by comics writer Steve Gerber in the background of the villain Dr. Bong in the 1970s Marvel comic Howard the Duck.
The young woman with whom Greene had a relationship was 17, legal age in Illinois, and had graduated from high school in the months between their first meeting and his invitation to take her out to dinner. Their sole hotel tryst was euphemistically described as a "sexual encounter that stopped short of intercourse" in the Chicago Tribune, and Greene told Esquire that he demurred at going further, telling her, "You should wait to do this with someone you love".
Four months after Greene's resignation from the Chicago Tribune, his wife Susan died of heart failure following a month-long respiratory illness.
His next book, When We Get to Surf City: A Journey through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams, was released on May 13, 2008. It is a chronicle of a 15-year period when he intermittently toured with surf-rock musicians Jan and Dean, singing backup and playing guitar.
His latest book, Late Edition: A Love Story was released on July 7, 2009. In it, he wistfully chronicles his days as a copyboy and other apprentice positions at the Columbus Citizen-Journal and the Columbus Dispatch.
In 1995, Greene was named Illinois Journalist of the Year. In the same year he was awarded the Peter Lisagor Award for Public Service Journalism for his reporting on courts failing children in need.
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